I play violent video games and it doesn't persuade me to go out and kill in the real world. Yet the laws in Germany that censor the games seem to imply that it does. I can understand the censorship of Nazi propaganda and what not due to the past wars and political turmoil but I think the censorship of blood is a bit overboard.
Why don't they censor it so when you get a cut or go into surgery, they put a little black box around it too. Its like the German government over reacts to everything. I heard a while back that they tried to get paintball banned because someone involved in a shooting just happened to play recreational paintball in the past.
Edit: PS Why is the fire censored in KF too? Shame because when zombies take over the world, Germany's gamers will be helpless when they don't realize that fire can be used as a weapon.
Rather than pasting a wall of text as I usually would, I'll simply respond by noting that in the Japanese release of Bethesda's Fallout 3, the mission where you can detonate a nuclear bomb in the middle of a city rather than disarming it...has been completely removed. It was apparently too similar to the real life events of World War II: the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Laws of today exist due to events of the past, and given Germany's dark past, I can see why the current government is so stringent on censoring violence.
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